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From: Felipe W Damasio <felipewd@terra.com.br>
To: chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Cc: linux-atm-general@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] Using possibly corrupted structure in atm/he.c
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 01:25:22 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F6D2832.8040609@terra.com.br> (raw)

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	Hi Chas,

	Patch against 2.6-test5.

	If copy_from_user returns != 0, it means the the regs structure wasn't 
filled correctly, and since its fields are used to determine which ioctl 
the user is requesting the kernel could oops.

	And as long as we're covering the subject, the patch also audits 
copy_to_user on the same function to check a possible failure to copy 
the result back to userspace.

	These bugs were found by smatch.

	Please consider applying.

	Cheers,

Felipe
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--- linux-2.6.0-test5/drivers/atm/he.c	Mon Sep  8 16:49:54 2003
+++ linux-2.6.0-test5-fwd/drivers/atm/he.c	Sun Sep 21 01:13:39 2003
@@ -2860,8 +2860,10 @@
 			if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 				return -EPERM;
 
-			copy_from_user(&reg, (struct he_ioctl_reg *) arg,
-						sizeof(struct he_ioctl_reg));
+			if (copy_from_user(&reg, (struct he_ioctl_reg *) arg,
+						sizeof(struct he_ioctl_reg)))
+				return -EFAULT;
+			
 			spin_lock_irqsave(&he_dev->global_lock, flags);
 			switch (reg.type) {
 				case HE_REGTYPE_PCI:
@@ -2885,8 +2887,9 @@
 			}
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&he_dev->global_lock, flags);
 			if (err == 0)
-				copy_to_user((struct he_ioctl_reg *) arg, &reg,
-							sizeof(struct he_ioctl_reg));
+				if (copy_to_user((struct he_ioctl_reg *) arg, &reg,
+							sizeof(struct he_ioctl_reg)))
+					return -EFAULT;
 			break;
 		default:
 #ifdef CONFIG_ATM_HE_USE_SUNI

             reply	other threads:[~2003-09-21  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-09-21  4:25 Felipe W Damasio [this message]
2003-09-22 14:41 ` [PATCH] Using possibly corrupted structure in atm/he.c chas williams

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